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The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Watch that Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan The Republic by Plato Macbeth by William Shakespeare Animal Farm by George Orwell King Lear by William Shakespeare Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
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if there were nothing, nothing would be forbidden. Thus nothing is self-forbidding.
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